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Friday, January 23, 2015

I have been married for more than a month now- technically, a month
and 13 days. That is, a month and 13 days when I started this post, not when I posted it. By the
time I posted it I had been married 2 months and 21 days.
Procrastination and all that....For a long time, I thought I would refrain from writing about my marriage. I do not really agree
with the line of thinking that marriage is the most important event in
your life, just as I never agreed with our teachers' vehement insistence
that "Class XII is the turning point of your life" (TBH, every year of
school, teachers said THAT year was the most important school year. Much
like mankind in general deludes itself into believing we are at the
turning point of human civilization, our generation makes a tryst with
destiny and so forth. Anyway, I digress. As usual.) My point was - I
don't need to really dedicate a post (or a series thereof) to marriage.But, then again, just as Jon Stewart gets constantly tempted to mock Fox News, Rajkumar Hirani cannot resist adding father-daughter senti, Kamal cannot stop mentioning rape* and making fun of Tambrahms (or using "Pallaandu Pallaandu in his songs! :-/ ), Nolan cannot help hiring Michael Cain even after he becomes a tottering old man, and Krish Ashok has to fall back on TR any time he cannot think of anything else** and ... oh, well, I got lost along the list, didn't I? I meant to say that writers and artists tend to go weak in their knees when they see obvious material, and I am no exception! Even though I think marriage isn't all that big a deal, there was so much involved that had to be written down for eternity (or until whenever the Google servers last), that I couldn't resist.